English deck of single figure cartomancy cards

Description

Title: English deck of single figure cartomancy cards
Creator: Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942, conceptor
Contributor: Smith, Pamela Colman, designer.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Church of Light, playing card maker.
Published / Created: [1937?]
Publication Place: England and Los Angeles, California
Publisher: Arthur Edward Waite and Church of Light
Description: BEIN ENG38 : From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title devised by cataloger.
Latin/Italian suit system, modified (swords, wands, pentacles, cups)
Type: Cartomancy.
Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool].
CourtCards: Cavaliers are called knights; jacks are labelled pages.
Pipcards and Jokers: Pip cards numbered X-II.
Trumps: Single figure trumps; II: THE HIGH PRIESTESS; V: THE HIEROPHANT.
The cards appeared originally with Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910. All cards bear the designer's monogram. Suits of batons and money are labelled wands and pentacles.
Label indicates that the pack was printed in Great Britian and distributed by the Church of Light, Los Angeles.
Extent: 78 cards : 119 x 70 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Specimens
Fortune telling cards
Material: color ; and lithography
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Divination cards
Subjects: Divination cards > England > Specimens
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

Access: Public
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